>Andrew McNamara wrote: >> But it doesn't mean "top-level" - it already comes with the qualifier >> "module". > >This is exactly what "global variable" means in C, Perl, JavaScript, >Ruby, etc. > >The global scope is the widest scope in which you can declare a variable.
This is inaccurate at best. The reality is: Python's "global" is module-global, yet there's a wider scope that is searched after the module namespace: the __builtin__ module. C has a similar concept module-global (module "static" variables), but if I remember correctly Perl does not (globals are interpreter-global), and neither does Javascript (globals are global to the document, with each document essentially a separate interpreter instance). To be honest, I'm +0 on using "global" in the way GvR proposes. My point is that python's globals are already different from other common languages, and people cope with that. -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
